The Secret Of The Chinchorro Mummies | The Oldest Mummies In The World | Timeline
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- Опубликовано: 26 фев 2018
- Ancient Egypt was considered to be the origin of the practice of mummification. In Chile, however, spectacular graves containing mummies a thousand years older than those of the Egyptians, are being unearthed.
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rofl... the mummies are fully clothed but the depiction of the live ones are naked with a g-string
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This program is great because it mentions mummies that are even thousands of years older than their Egyptian counterparts
It fascinates me that there is so much similarity between the Chichorros and the Egyptians.
Not so much in the method, but that the remains were actually mummified.
Was there somehow a connection? Was there a list civilization and was the great catastrophe an actual event that sent mankind underground?
Who can actually say absolutely for sure that the other side is wrong?
The academics or Grahem Hancock, Foerster, Robert Schlock? Before 1995 nobody knew that Gobekli Tepe existed and is 12 000 years old.
Mention, it is what the show is about. Literally it’s in the title of the show.
@libbylee9722 leave him alone.
The last survivors of a lost civilization.Imagine what's at the bottom of the ocean. Or even still buried.
One can only dream what lays under the ocean.
@@MsKittyGirl2010 until we get a super quantum computer or AI that can recreate past civilizations and people
Or what’s still living there!!!
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If it's in the ocean, probable very little, if nothing. The ocean, with it's water and it's scavengers, is very good at making everything organic disappear.
One of my bucket list wishes is to spend 1 day participating in an archeological dig. This is so cool.
Many university students majoring in forensic anthropology pay money for that, a semester at a dig.
And one day we dedinately will
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If you live in the UK there are actually loads of opportunity to volunteer on a dig if you know where to look or know the right people
So they removed the entire skin... then bound the skinless body with wooden pieces and then put the skin back on... that is some serious skill.
@@ecmpinky7772 do it then, nerd 😋
@@ecmpinky7772 No you can't.
You guys are psychopath
@@imahfbskdbd9683 YOU'RE A PSYCHOPATH
Jeffrey Dahmer could never
I particularly appreciated the aesthetic qualities of those funeral masks. When you think of it, the whole process of mummification is a stylization of the body--getting rid of the unessential to preserve the essential. Altogether, powerful doc.
The insights that these mummies have given us about what life was like 9000 years ago is just immeasurable.
Anyone who has stood in the same room as these important remains must've felt awed and humbled.
These ancient people cared deeply for and about their children, as proven in their extensive child mummification. It appears with these miniature mummies that they may have extended that practice even to babies that we're miscarried. How admirable.
Now feminists demand that doctors pull living babies from their wombs to throw them in trash bags or give the body parts to creepy "elite" types.
Now people just flush am down the toilet.
@@theredcomet844 Yes. Such a shame.
It’s so mummified it doesn’t even look like a human, looks like a puppet
They had no plumbing in order to flush them.
I’m so delighted to see Joan. What a pleasure to get her expertise on mummies outside of Egypt 🇪🇬
i was just chillin watching an ancient history doc, minding my own business and i realize one of the doctors of anthropology in the video worked at my university where im minoring in anthropology that made my whole week i’m so happy now
i would die to have that opportunity!
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Dr. Fletcher is everywhere when it comes to mummy 😂 this woman is incredible!
I bet her wig has been directly snatched from Queen Tiye's mummy lol
She’s the best man
Soon as I seen the red hair I thought the same thing 🤣
Yes, certainly, just like her grandmother Jessica Fletcher from "Murder she wrote"!
She will be a mummy herself
Fascinating documentary. I've never heard of these people. Was pleasantly surprised to see Joann Fletcher make an appearance.
A society that regarded their children rather than sacrificing them. I applaud these ancient people!
Most of "those societies", if you did any actual research, you would know how highly they valued their children, hence the reason they sacrificed them. They didn't do it all the time, only when they felt it was needed. And examining their mummies they found that when they were sacrificed, they were made comfortable and passed gently. Do your research SMH
@@raedale6472 "They loved their kids so much that they killed them"
When typing your comment you probably didn't stop a second to think how absurd and insane its content was, did you?
I was incredibly moved that they mummified everyone, even the still born. What do we call modern and civilised? Bombs? War? Hunger? Environmental catastrophe? Stone age hunter gatherers sounds fine to me.
Those of you who are angry at the scientists for calling the Chinchorros "Stone age hunter gatherers"-- that term is not an insult, it's a formal scientific classification for a form of society that is pre-metal (stone age) and pre-farming (hunter gatherer).
How moving and humbly reminding us that so many humans precede us!! Thank you to You tube, thank you to scientists and thank you to LIFE!
I’ve seen that red head lady on every mummy documentary
joan fletcher, shes brilliant
At least she isn’t the SJW one
She’s a mummy expert, so naturally you would want the best of the best to study your mummy
Female Jim Morrison
Joan Fletcher is my celebrity crush lol
Perhaps having the bodies with you when you moved house kept the memories alive in heart and memory
Makes you think maybe we should be getting mummified as well
It's a practice still carried out to this day in various places and the families dead are dried and preserved and each special day birthdays etc they will be bought out and given offerings and celebrated as if still alive
There are groups in the world today who still practise exactly that. So why not indeed.
Like today's version of cremated remains in an urn.
Joanne fletcher is one of my favorite archeologist her research and studies is always been spot on her discoveries are historic and she is very brilliant in her fundings I would love to work in the research and the studies of the artifacts being found its always exciting picking a artifact and holding something that was used or placed from over 1000 years or more
I bet she is absolutely amazing in the sheets
Wow, but if these mummies are this well kept now, imagine how they looked only 200-300 years ago?
"The LAND belongs to a PRIVATE WATER COMPANY." That's how you impoverish an entire continent and make all the people work for you, instead for them selves. And the fact that they skipped over it is almost just as sad.
Happens all over the world. It will happen here in American if things continue going the way it's going now.
Well, that was fascinating. Dr Fletcher, as always, brightens my day with her enthusiasm and eccentricity. I must say, I've never thought cannibalism (to survive) to be especially egregious - assuming the person wasn't murdered for the purpose of food. I'm a pescatarian (so I eat seafood, but no meat, no chicken) and I don't really get how people can easily eat pigs (who are cleverer than dogs, and know they're going to die), cows and baby sheep (lambs!) but recoil in horror at the thought of reusing human bodies to keep the living alive (e.g. like in the Andes plane crash).
Yes. I read about the Andes plane crash, and it stayed with me.
I bet Dr Fletcher is absolutely amazing in bed
You can tell by the hairstyles, moustaches, clothes and computer equipment that this is quite a an old documentary, I wonder if they ever looked at the mummies again with newer equipment?
Good question.
Also I think the voice over guy is dead
Love these MUMMY documentaries!
Thank you so much!
They've really ignited curiosity in me about archeology and mummies.
Glad the camera was finally invented. No need for beloved grandmas corpse to be taxidermed to keep memories alive.
Why does it HAVE to be cannibalism? Why couldn't it be more likely that they thought that the bone marrow would cause the bone to decay unless you removed the tissue?!
It seems like to the Chinchorros cannibalism was a way of staying connected to their loved ones.
Yeah really ! It’s because it’s interpreted by u know who n they like to act like others are primitive n cannibals while in reality they were eating mummies themselves
@@user-vp2gv1yz3i i personally don’t put ANYTHING past so-called scientists anymore especially considering the disgusting & indescribably cruel “tests” conducted on a LOT of puppies under Fauci! I am SICK of these people being allowed to write our history which is based purely on speculation!
Some cannibalism was done for actual food purposes but some was religious in nature. It was to honor the deceased loved one. To keep them in the family so to speak.
While watching such documentaries, I surely get fascinated, but few thoughts always consume me.
1. These people have never thought that when they die, their head is going to end up somewhere on some shelf with other heads.
2.The people burying these people might have thought that these dead bodies are forever going to be there.
3. We are watching someone's grave being disturbed.
They love disturbing and desecrating other cultures dead bodies. Yet, none of them does so on their own continent, because they're new people, called mankind. Very evil thing to do.
@@efemzyekun900 But it happens? Excavations in Europe, Asia, and North America happen on the regular, but usually to clear some areas because things are going to get built there. If a discovery isn't that significant it won't get a lot of media coverage either.
@@doredam8919 so Africa is significant, that's why they love excavating our land, looking for our dead and buried ancestors to study? Why can't they leave us the heck alone? We view it an abomination to disturb the dead.
The alternative was destruction for modern reasons. When I heard that, my opinion changed and I was glad they were able to preserve them. These were fascinating people and deserve to be studied. Imagine, the only known people to mummify not only children but the unborn also!
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If they're cannibalizing then it makes sense they would mummify more often out of respect to the sacrifice of the life-force given. In those times, I imagine the life force is a much more sacred thing. I liked how they had the mummies sitting up against the cave wall in the re-enactment scenes around the fire. Something about that kind of rang true. Death was and remains very mysterious. It's how we deal with this mystery that has varied over time.
Modern thinking.
For all we know, they mummified the remains for conservation and later ate to survive.
@@Schmorgus it's the equivalent of grave stones, although they did those too at least in *The Book of the Dead* called hieroglyphics
Here in NZ my Maori people would dry the heads of enemies and family alike. There would be no shrinkage of the heads. At certain times these heads would be brought out and placed on a simple cross about 2 feet high. A feather cloak would be placed over the cross and it would appear as if these figures were crouched around a fire. There the ancestors would be honoured and consulted through "tohunga", our sacred spiritual leaders. Conversely old foes would be reminded of the folly of attacking such an illustrious opponent. Elders said with the fire flickering and the full facial tattoos of the heads it appeared as if they were alive again.
@@hemana3859 how fascinating. I wonder if that type of thing was practiced by other cultures. Perhaps Easter Island or Polynesia.
16:30 it's amazing the extremes that humans go through due to our fear of death
Concerning the 18 yr old female mummy who was violently murdered: What if the post mortem cuts made to the leg bones were an attempt to mummify what was left of her decaying body if they had not found her until days after she had been murdered?
I wondered if she wasn't punished for some reason. In today's homicides, cut off legs means they tried to leave. What if group survival required that no one person could ever leave the group?
Possible
When looking at that mummified tiny face, you can clearly see that was a beloved, deeply mourned baby... the mask was made with extreme care, tenderness and precision. I totally knew it was a nonato when I saw it.
Nonato?
@@royalmilotic oops, I wrote that in spanish... = unborn
I probably said " How is that even possible" out loud 15 times, at least by the time this documentary was over. 🤯🤯
Absolutely fascinating!
I wish they had discussed the face masks. How were they made, what are the theories for why they were made...
YES! and why flat, plate-like masks rather than something that reflects more of what the person looked like in life?
@@KnottyCeltic perhaps they believed that when they died they became the specter of death, they saw life as a manner of creation with death being the 'firing of the kiln of death', they see death as a unification, the many become one and all wear the face of death.
@@therecordholder naw, that's the Borg.
Yup everyone else did not pay attention buddy!!
I remember reading in a book that the Chinchorro children were dying from arsenic poisoning because of the arsenic in the water or the soil or something
Yes
Arsenic from the volcano...
Marrying sisters and brother and Causin cause early death so is not good tomarry a relative it cause even strength deasises
@@roselineimbujira1119, KURU ! ? !
@step lane It is so exceptional to see such devotion to their loved ones rather than sacrificing them to a god that they fear.
Dr. Fletcher seems younger in this video than the others I've seen.
this footage was taken more than 20 years ago...
I bet she is absolutely amazing in the sheets
“In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.”
The very reason why we can't last that long on this earth. Nobody really wanted to live forever because nobody can stand the chilling loneliness, the deafening silence and emptiness.
Untill each other becomes unbearable
@@dilasgrau6433 people don't live long because of the food they eat. there were people who lived hundreds of years in the past and happily unlike humans today
@Russel Murray if people were given a chance to live forever, most certainly they wouldn't take it. Or would you?
@@dilasgrau6433 a long life is a blessing not many people are worthy of .the idea that I could live 900 years would be great I don't take part in the destruction of life I've been vegan for almost 70 years so I suggest you speak only for yourself life is great for me I'm not possessed by my desires
These mummies were not created accidently in the desert as the desert sands had powerful resources which helped with their preservation and were therefore purposely placed in their location.
exactly!
Why did they not discuss the elongated skulls they were holding? I'd think that head-binding or something like that would be an important part of the cultural commentary.
Bound heads are pointed the Peruvian skulls are different much larger
Brilliant. Just one thing I noticed was that when they are taking out the mummy's they did not wear gloves. Just thought that was rare.
I would have double gloved but I'm just ocd....well I might not even touch it period. I don't want to touch any dead thing or person. I know it's mind over matter but all I can think of is uncleanness.
Always impressed by Timeline documentaries. Thanks.
The desire to go on forever is something that motivates people to do some crazy things in order to counter the effects of time and decay. We are not necessarily a rational species.
This time the music was just right. Thank you.
This music is amazing, I wish I knew where to find it other than here. So creepy and eerie lol
So interesting 🥰 took me a while on good to find out when this was made, can believe its been more than 20 years! Wonder what they have discovered about them since 😮
10:18 Red hair, british accent... Must be a Weasley !
Lolol
Laurie Gagnon they are English. British is a collection of different accents from various countries
@@ckdub1888 thank you, Dumbledore.
Haha Laurie Gagnon
Mummy Weasley
These people must have cherished and loved their children...so much can be deduced from just the mummies themselves. People surviving through hunting and gathering would not expend so much energy on the bodies of the children unless children had great importance. They wanted to keep their dead children with them I don’t think it too much of a stretch to infer they intensely loved their children. It’s very touching to see their mummified bodies.
I wouldn't infer just from the mummies that these folks loved their children more than other civilizations. Do we have any other artifacts from when they were actually alive? All sorts of reasons folks mummify their dead, but I wouldn't imply that it meant they valued their kids more.
Man...Beachfront property, all you can eat seafood, organically produce clothing, and expensive funerals. Not a bad life.
The oldest mummy has yet to be found, I'm sure there's many in some glacier waiting to melt out.
While watching the video,the constant question abt obsession with preserving the dead body suddenly made me think that they are simply doing to actually preserve their loved ones, they dont want worms and maggots to eat it.. Their way to protect n respect their dead?? Is it possible??
"we didn't find any bones...on this particular mummy"
You meant to say " there is no evidence that this is anything but a children's toy burried beside a dead child"
No, a fetuses bones are extremely soft, so it's not surprising that the bones or most of them would've decomposed after thousands of years. Also, they did find a partial orbital bone.. Therefore, validating their theory that these were babies who were miscarried or stillborn..
this documentary got me dreaming about dune.
10/10 would fall asleep to again
Naturally
9,000 years ago! And they came from somewhere, so they had existed long before. That’s what I want to know: from where, and how long had they existed.
So many ancient secrets have still yet to be found, very interesting
But...was it really considered mummification if they removed all the flesh off the bones only to reinforce it with sticks? That's not preserving the flesh in any way. These mummies don't have any real remains left except for a few bones and skulls.
The face cannot be recognized either. My opinion, Egyptian mummies are reserved better and kept more preserved.
I was thinking the exact same thing.
@22:37 she the redhead girl said "They have incredible degree of sophistication, they are very familiar with anatomy of humans to remove internal organs to prevent decomposition "
@20:42 she again said "Egyptians are masters of mummification but sinchoros are millennia ahead of ancient Egyptians when it comes to mummification" and yet this so called experts or egyptologist have the guts to call this mummified ancient people of Peru STONE AGE HUNTERS AND GATHERERS.
"Stone age hunter gatherers" is a formal scientific classification for a form of society that is pre-metal (stone age) and pre-farming (hunter gatherer). It is not an insult.
Watching + learning from NSW Australia.
Thank you for the upload Timeline WHD
Dr Joann fletcher my fav.
JoAnne
Same! I've watched so many of her shows
I bet she is absolutely amazing in the sheets
The amazing pre-modern from the pre historical fraction. The way they show respect to the dead are very touching. Pity there’s now drawings to record their history. It would be definitely a fascinating story. Sometimes we would find just how amazing were the people from pre historical or ancient times. Yea, we may think ‘oh, we creat a new stuff.’ Only to find out there someone already using them in the pre-historic times but got loss in time.
My mom did say we modernist relying on modern technology too much. That’s why we got dumber than the people from ancient times. In some areas. 😂
Absolutely fascinating!
There were 2 babies found with King Tut one was stillborn and the other one was like around the 20th wk or close to that. One had birth defects for sure and I am not certain about the other.
Other had marphins
One more like had water on the brain
I remember reading that too, but I'm no expert so I'm kind of wondering how intact those remains were after so long? All I remember is that remains of such young children are always very fragile.
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ROK. It's my flag of thinking of
A much younger version of Doc. Joann Fletcher... She's getting more enthusiastic with mature age. 👍
So easy to underestimate cultural complexity without the guidance of artefacts and art. This people group may have been using vocal histories. The mummies seem to indicate an afterlife belief and cannibalism to absorb the deceased powers/life force. Thank you for these productions, they give so much.
"Not as peaceful as we used to think."
Humans and their complex emotions. Go figure.
When were we EVER thought to live peacefully. Except the Garden of Eden, or so the story goes.
Transporting them in a hearse with honor and care… 😩💔💔💔 I love that
I wonder if the living women cut some of their hair to put on the mummies?
Seems likely, or they used the hair of the deceased.
I remember reading about Tibetan life and its use of the body after death. They can't bury because the ground is frozen, so every part of the body is re-used in some way and purpose because it is just an empty vessel. I didn't think of it at the time but if they used every part of the body then are we not to assume they used the meat of that body for food.
The word cannibalism to us is, someone killed someone purely for evil thoughts to taste human flesh. But we always assume the worst. In an ancient world, it is conceivable that using the loved one's vessel that they no longer use is an acceptable and better alternative to letting it rot.
When moose are struck by cars in Alaska, you call a ranger service & they, in turn, call the next person on a list to come to pick up the carcass within a certain time frame. This gives meat to people and provides an array of other products from the body that would otherwise just rot and stink up the environment.
Finding out these things are so interesting but I find it funny now that the scientists are always reluctant to agree it was cannibalism of an environmental form and not murder or devious means
They lack health education
You missed the point
'Though all living things come from & return back to His Dirt.
Still, between those times; are they not fashioned by His Light & Living Waters?''
-William Gilpin 62221
On the other proof @ hand... 'Those many unearthed, before the knowledge of good & evil, did what they saw was right in their own eyes. Reckon as reckon might have reckoned back then... I would've too. Wouldn't you?
Well, i doubt they have that much food stocks, the more meat the better, it's all about survival.
Today cannibalism aren't needed cause we pretty much have all the foods we need to survive, except for some part of the world.
Excellent documentary. Thank you for sharing!
This is absolutely remarkable
Great channel thank you for all the effort in Gathering all this documentaries
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Why do you have actors portraying them as living their lives naked when the mummies are clothed?
Because like so much of this archaeology it's complete conjecture. The mummy makers were women...because the men caught fish...non sequitur. Women are used to seeing blood (menstrual argument). Anachronistic, modern women deal with constant menstrual blood due solely to the birth control pill. Ancient peoples a women would have spent most of her fertile years pregnant or nursing. Lactational amenorrhea. Your great grandmother may have had 10 menstrual cycles over the course of her life. And so it goes.
There are some actors wearing the rope-skirt type garments that the mummies were shown wearing and definitely some loincloths. I think the mummies were only found with rope skirts, and shawls, animals skins and reed mats for coverings.
Perverts
To support their unsupported claim that these people were “violent, canabalistic, hunter gathers”. The British Egyptologists just make basis claims that these people were primitive but there mummification shows the exact opposite. The Egyptologist went their to fabricate their own story of how those mummies fit into THEIR REALITY.
BECAUSE THESE PALE SKINNED COLONIZERS WILL ALWAYS TRY AND MAKE OUR ANCESTORS SEEM DOCILE AND SEEM LIKE A BASE PEOPLE YET OUR ANCESTORS ARE/WERE THE MOST ADVANCED PEOPLE ON THE PLANET AND THEY HATE TO ADMIT IT. ALONG WITH TODAYS CRONIES LMAO
So the body's are dried preserved so they can be moved around
Oh let me think doesn't some cultures still practice this kind of thing
And its not an isolated thing it fascinates me how cultures many thousands of miles apart share similar beliefs and traditions from the times where people where meant to be pretty much isolated from each other
Mummification and the earliest concept of the Afterlife began in ancient Peru with the Chinchorro Culture which expanded into territory that was later annexed by Chile in the 19th century.
Would be more correct to say these peoples territory was in what is now Chile and Peru. This society was extinct thousands of years before Peru (Biru) was a thing.
percussion 44 the culture of mummification with the cult of the ancestors initiated by the chinchorro continued well into the development of Peru as a civilization.
percussion 44 the territory was Peru until the 19th century. Culture is inherited not annexed.
Well eating the dead is not that unusual, they did that in New Guinea untill recently. Thats how Kuru kuru was spread.
Un the Amazon people ate their parents brain to be wise
Every culture in history had some cannibalism involved at some point. But historians tend to hide/remove that because it's against their religious beliefs.
Just look at the local scientists in the video. Their faces when they talked about bone marrow. They were just "NOPE. Not in our country. We're deleting that!" xD
Amazing culture and wonderful documentary video.. the way they lived reminds me of Jean M. Auel books "The Clan of the Cave Bear" how lived in Europe.. Thank you kindly for sharing 💕🍃🌍🍃✌💕
Hjordis Torfa I love that book I read the whole series I found them at the pick of the litter at the dump like 10 years ago amazing series
Let me spoil your day, go watch the movie. Its terrible. I loved the first two books, the ones after just lost its magic after that
Plains of Passage was particularly bad. But I reread the first two every now and then. Just magnificent
Oh great! Now i want to be an archeologist
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8:25 it's crazy how the face has decomposed into an expression of utter horror.
Like even the eyebrow has collapsed to make the face seem pleading, but then that gaping and contorted scream ensures that this image will haunt my nightmares tonight.
Briana Peterson I bet you are a right laugh at parties
That's just what happens to the face as the skin and muscles dry out and contract. It's even more pronounced if the mouth is not closed soon after death, sewn closed as in shrunken heads, or if the remains are not covered in resins as in the most well preserved ancient Egyptian royals. Bonus if the tissues of the mouth/lips degrade, adds to the "screaming" countenance.
I think they look like they are singing.
One day we will be a layer on this Earth. The rest of us will just be Dust in the Wind
Congrats
The age of science is very difficult to determine. We think, we are at the pinnacle of science which is pretty much true. Our forefathers also reached the pinnacle of science in their time. But they began to live such a chaotic & reckless life that they forgot the creator.
As a result, the creator had destroyed their science, civilization and culture. Thus from one generation to another generation is in ups and down. And it will continue to be so.
'Though all living things come from & return back to His Dirt.
Still, between those times; are they not fashioned by His Light & Living Waters?''
-William Gilpin 62221
On the other proof @ hand... 'Those many unearthed, before the knowledge of good & evil, did what they saw was right in their own eyes. Reckon as reckon might have reckoned back then... I would've too. Wouldn't you?
It’s so crazy that I see that perverse cultures or violent cultures ALWAYS ALWAYS GET destroyed. This never ceases to stop. Because people just love wickedness. Even I find myself still enchained by the narcotics I choose to ingest, stimulants or depressants, I do for the fact and purpose of feeling pleasure. A lover of pleasure if you will and that is perversion. I have to drown my body with large amounts of dopamine with what I ingest. And I know it’s wrong. What we all need is the true Living God Jesus Christ. I do have faith that he will HELP ME change he does not just do it you have to be willing to do your part.
" it must have been a hit on her head , a bash" waww nicee veryy nice amazing lol their reactions 😂
amazing! I enjoyed this! what a great programme! thank you
Very interesting ...what a great History..i never thought that these people originally knows to mummified before the Egyptian era
I thought we all agreed at this point that ancient Egypt existed since 10000 years ago at least and not 5000 or 4500?
Love Dr Fletchers passion.
So does Hawass !?!
Extremely fascinating documentary!
Thank you for another awesome documentary
Damn I didn’t even smoke through all this. I never knew about these people from our past. Thank you for sharing.
Lady Dai is considered modern to us at 2000 years compared to these at 9000. These mummies were already 7000 years old in Lady Dai's time.
All I can say is, WOW...Great documentary, Thanks.
I just wonder if 1 of the reasons they mummified was to remove what would create an aroma that attract scavenging wildlife ...🤔
I expect that depends on what other fauna was present in the surrounding area at the time, though that is an interesting question!
Why would they want to attract a meat eating animal?
Probably, I never really thought about it or ever heard on why they would do it.
Certain body parts will decay and contaminate parts of the body which can be preserved hence removed
@@violetjenkins1077 perhaps check out sky buriels often practiced in high altitude areas where bodies are deliberately layed out to be picked by scavenging birds etc
Still occurs in some places
I hope a thousand yrs from now...I hope they don't unearth us and put us on display...oh I forgot we are not buried with artifacts and precious jewels
@Pa BHAV lol
Awesome documentary!! I love the photos all so beautiful!!! Love and respect Tamsen Roberts in Riverside California...
Best documentary I have seen so far!
I just can't get over the fact that they wrapped the bodies and made clay death masks... but are said to have been unable to make pottery..(!!??)
Dr Fletcher is young there but really hasnt changed much.
Hmm? Does a fracture of the skull of one specimen necessarily mean that "they were violent" and "interpersonal violence was common". Could a fall cause such a injury. Could an ill-conceived dive into a rocky area of the ocean be responsible. I love archaeology, but sometimes the conclusions arrived at seem to predicated on, well, prejudices!
Completely agree. The results of one case study cannot be extrapolated to a whole culture. I would love to know whether a trauma analysis of a larger population of these mummies has been done/is planned. If they're seeing lots of head wounds, parry fractures, or penetrating wounds etc., particularly in young men, then I think it is a fair conclusion to make that "interpersonal violence was common".
But, of course, one problem with this avenue of study is that we're often comparing trauma types/rates to later cultures or modern epidemiological data. And really, how comparable is rural, modern fracture incidence to this coastal, Neolithic context? Despite all of our modern, scientific techniques, there is so much context that will forever be lost to time. All we can do is educated, best guessery; that's why they call it archaeological interpretation and not archaeological fact. There will always be new tools, techniques and theoretical perspectives that come along and change assumptions and interpretations.
Or maybe the person was dying in pain from an injury or disease and smack the head was the best option
This is an very interesting video!. Thanks in doing this!!!!
Fact; The oldest known mummy in the world was found in the state of Nevada, United States. The mummy was a male Native American, he was believed to be around the age of 40 years old when he died. His remains are dated to be 10,400 to 10,600 years old. He is known as the Spirit Cave Mummy.
Mojo, Correction my friend, I just Googled to read more, and Spirit Cave Mummy is the oldest one in NORTH AMERICA., not the world. You may want to edit your comment. Anyway, I'm fascinated by these documentaries, and I'm looking forward to reading up on him. We really don't do enough archeology in the US. At least in my observation. Take care, and thanks for your comment..
also, isnt the spirit cave mummy a case of natural mummification, while the chinchorros seem to be the oldest case of intentional mummification
@@xdelbarrio It is
29:28 Even a 9000 year old mummy is deemed enticing to a fly
Fascinating...great documentary...
Truly incredible!!!
I would absolutely love to Archaeology! Just one day would be a wonderful dream come true!!!